Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama's work as a writer and activist and situates her in the context of Dalit literature in general and Tamil Dalit literature in particular.
Raj Kumar is Professor in the Department of English, Delhi University. His book, Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation and Identity has been published by Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi in 2010. His English translation of Akhila Naik's Bheda, the first Odia Dalit novel is published in 2017. His book Dalit Literature and Criticism was published in 2019.
S. Armstrong is Professor and Head, Centre for Endangered Languages, University of Madras, Chennai. He is a former Fulbright and Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow and authored Voice of the Voiceless (2013) and edited three books. He is currently working on Blue Humanities and Literatures.